Seductions Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.
— Thomas Jefferson
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To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of…
— Robyn Davidson
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To be true to ourselves, however, is not an easy task. We must break free of the seductions of society and live life on our…
— Robin Sharma
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One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning.…
— Os Guinness
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Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security, predictability, control. These,…
— William Deresiewicz
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No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny…
— Tammy Bruce
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There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.
— Richard Brautigan
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Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Salvador Dalà seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs,…
— Luis Bunuel
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That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under…
— Virginia Woolf
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To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the world, saying no…
— Cynthia Ozick
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Cleopatra was on a political mission to save her country and her power, but what we remember about her are these two famed seductions, which…
— Stacy Schiff
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That work is ever more pleasant to the imagination which is not now required. How wistfully, when we have promised to attend the working committee,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Seductions Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 14 Seductions Quotes as follows: